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Logic App Workflow Runs Workbook

The Insights screen of a Logic App shows workflow runs, but only for a single Logic App and with some limitations. In this post, I walk through an Azure Workbook that shows the runs of multiple Logic Apps in one place, including cancelled runs, a graph over time, trace links and the option to view or resubmit a run.

Monitoring Azure Integrations with a Dashboard

Integrations built with Azure Integration Services can include components from several services, each with its own monitoring experience. In this post, I show how I bring API Management requests, Azure Functions, Logic App workflows and Service Bus signals together in an Azure dashboard, then turn that dashboard into a reusable Bicep deployment.

Grouping APIs in Azure API Management Using Tags

When you have a lot of APIs in Azure API Management, the view can become unwieldy. By applying tags to your APIs you can group and filter them in both the Azure Portal and the Developer Portal. In this post I’ll show you how to assign tags to APIs using Bicep and how to automatically bubble up operation-level tags from an OpenAPI spec to the API level.

Implement Failover in API Management with a Load-balanced Pool

In this post, I’ll show you how to implement (regional) failover in Azure API Management using priority-based load-balanced pools, backend circuit breakers and retry policies. The setup sends traffic to the local backend by default and automatically fails over to the secondary backend when the primary backend becomes unavailable.

Track Availability in Application Insights using Logic App Workflow

I’ve worked with clients following a low-code first strategy where Logic Apps are preferred over .NET solutions. This post shows you how to create custom availability tests using Logic App (Standard) workflows and track the results in Application Insights. This approach gives you access to all Logic App capabilities while requiring minimal code.

Track Availability in Application Insights using .NET

Standard availability tests in Application Insights have limitations like no multi-step authentication, no mTLS support and no access to private networks. This post shows you how to create custom availability tests using .NET and Azure Functions to overcome these restrictions while gaining full control over your monitoring logic.